As such, believe it or not, Samsung is looking at a three-year high consolidated operating profit of around 9.2 trillion Korean won ($7.7 billion), substantially up from both Note 7-influenced Q3 scores of 5.2 trillion won, and a 6.14 trillion won tally back in Q4 2015 that wasn’t bogged down by scandalous recalls.

Then you have memory chips, OLED screens and stuff like that which probably surpassed expectations, with the company’s semiconductor division singled out as the quarter’s top performer by most analysts. And yes, Q4 sales were of course on a sequential rise, from roughly 48 trillion won in Q3 to approximately 53 trillion between October and December 2016, which is however an exact match for Q4 2015 figures.

In total, Samsung projects 2016 consolidated sales to reach 201.54 trillion Korean won, with a full-year profit of a little over 29 trillion, up from 200.65 and 26.41 trillion respectively in 2015.

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